Binding attachment for sewing-machines



( M H. E. BARNETT.

BINDING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING MAUHINE3. No. 425,285. Patented Apr. 8, 18-90.

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HENRY E. BARNETT, OF EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BINDING ATTACHMENT FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 425,285, dated April 8, 1890.

Application filed April 17, 1888. Serial No. 270,958. clean.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY E. BARNETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Binders for Sewing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in binders for sewingmachincs, having for its object the provision of a new and improved binder capable of being readily adjusted, whereby the binding can be turned under and stitched to the fabric to avoid raw or frayed ends.

The invention therefore comprises the details of construction, combination, and arrangementof parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing my improved binder attached to a sewing-machine.

-Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view on the line at 9:,Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a transverse section on the line y y of said figure.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a longitudinally-disposed binder-plate, to one end of which is rigidly secured or made therewith the binder a, composed, preferably, of a piece of bent metal, forming upper and lower lips and tapering throughout its length, forming a scroll. To this plate A is secured a short lug or projection to, preferably secured by a threaded'shank a A handle B is likewise secured to this plate near one end, and by means thereof said plate and binder can be readily moved.

0 is a retainingplate for holding plate A in position, the same being held fast to the bed L of a sewing-machine K by screws 1) I), passed through apertnred ears I) Z) thereof. Through apertures of this retaining-plate 0 work compensating screws 13 b designed to rest on the plate A, so as to firmly hold the same and compensate for wear of said plate.

D is an adj Listing-screw secured in a threaded lug or projection (Z of plate 0. \Vith this adjusting-screw D is designed to come in contact the lug .or projection a, whereby the movement of the plate A is regulated, according to the extent of the adjustment of said screw.

By means of my invention the binder is held in close proximity to the needle of the sewing-machine during the binding opera-' tion. After the binding has been bound onto the fabric the desired extent it is thrust under said fabric after the latter is removed from the lips of the binder by thrusting the adjustable binder having the binding between its lips under the fabric, and when the binding is thus sufliciently thrust under the fabric it is stitched to said fabric and then cut off by any suitable instrument.

The binder is then readjusted to the needle by grasping the handle 13 andmoving plate A.

In Figs. 3, 4, and 5 I have shown the means in general use for holding a binder-plate in position, the same consisting of a screw M, which permanently holds the binder. When a binder of this form is employed, it is necessary for the operator to useasuitable tool to thrust the binding between the binder and needle under the fabric a suitable distance, and then stitch the binding on the under side of the fabric while held by the presser-foot.

The advantages of my invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which it appertains, and it will be particularly observed that by means thereof the binding can be readily shifted and turned.

from said latter plate and with which the.

lug or projection comes in contact, substantially as set forth. HENRY E. BARNETT.

Witnesses:

WM. G. BASSETT,

MARY O. BASSETT. 

